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Harvard Rules by Richard Bradley (2005, Hardcover) 
Harvard Rules by Richard Bradley (2005, Hardcover)

 
Harvard Rules by Richard Bradley (2005, Hardcover)

Author: Richard Bradley
Publisher: Harpercollins
Publication Date: 2005-02-15
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0060568542
ISBN-13: 9780060568542
Product ID: EPID43531560
Description: In this journalistic report on the Ivy League, Richard Bradley, a Harvard graduate, surveys the contentious and headline-making reign of Harvard University president Lawrence Summers up through 2004. An esteemed economist and former Trea...
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In this journalistic report on the Ivy League, Richard Bradley, a Harvard graduate, surveys the contentious and headline-making reign of Harvard University president Lawrence Summers up through 2004. An esteemed economist and former Treasury Secretary, Harvard graduate Summers was selected by the Harvard Corporation search committee in 2001 both for his accomplishments and for his perceived ability to bring about significant institutional change. However, the committee did not heed warnings about Summers's reportedly authoritarian and dismissive demeanor. Bradley recounts Summers's very public battle with Cornel West, a popular professor whom Summers accused of skipping classes, inflating grades, pursuing popular writing over scholarship--and even making a rap record! The rancorous dispute ended with West's departure to Princeton, but left a residue of ill will at Harvard. Bradley reports that Summers's effort to reform the undergraduate curriculum was seen as authoritarian and less than collegial by the faculty. He includes the post-9/11 public statements by Summers, perceived by some as stifling debate and discussion, as well as Summers's remarks during an Israel divestment controversy about serious people "advocating and taking positions that are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent." Throughout all, Summers clearly had his supporters, who cheered him for speaking with moral clarity. These controversies, or others like them, embroil many colleges, but they seldom make headlines beyond the campus. The very special status of Harvard as America's premier school, and the fact that these issues seem to touch the fault lines of the culture wars in America both past and present make HARVARD RULES a timely, popular treatment of the high-stakes game inside higher education.

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Publication Date:2005-02-15

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Length:375 pages
Height:9.0 in
Width:6.0 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:24.0 oz

Publisher's Note

It is the richest, most influential, most powerful university in the world, but at the beginning of 2001, Harvard was in crisis. Students complained that a Harvard education had grown mediocre. Professors charged that the university cared more about money than about learning. And everyone worried that Harvard's outgoing president, Neil Rudenstine, epitomized an unhappy trend: the university president as full-time fund-raiser. Harvard may have possessed a $19 billion endowment, but had the university lost its soul?

The members of the Harvard Corporation, the ultra-secretive governing board established more than three centuries ago, knew that they had to act. And so they made a bold pick for Harvard's twenty-seventh president: former Treasury Secretary and intellectual prodigy economist Lawrence Summers.

Although famously brilliant, Summers was a high-stakes gamble. In the 1990s he had crafted American policies to stabilize the global economy, quietly becoming one of the world's most powerful men. But while many admired Summers, his critics called him elitist, imperialist, and arrogant beyond measure.

Today Larry Summers sits atop a university in a state of upheaval, unsure of what it stands for and where it is going. His allies believe that Harvard needs shaking up and appreciate Summer's blunt language and unabashed displays of power. His foes accuse the new president of tearing apart a venerable institution simply to remake it in his own image. At stake is not just the future of Harvard University, but the way in which Harvard students see the world -- and the manner in which they will lead it.

Written despite the university's official opposition, Harvard Rules uncovers what really goes on behind Harvard's storied walls -- the politics, sex, ambition, infighting, and intrigue that run rampant within the world's most important university.



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